The Annual Henry Chan Lecture 2024 delivered by Dr Jennifer Hsu “Navigating Chinese Identity in Australia in the 21st Century”. Dr Jennifer Hsu is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Social Policy and Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Jennifer…
Malcolm Bruce Oakes, a senior silk of the Sydney Bar, died suddenly at home on 20 November 2023 aged 74 years. He was the leader of Tenth Floor Chambers, and throughout his lengthy career he was kind, humble, and modest. He was a fine exponent of the Inner Bar.
For dragon related historical reading have a look at this excellent article published by Museums Victoria based on research by Dr Sophie Couchman
Multicultural Citizenship Re Imagined: Engaging Migrants form China By: Dr Wanning Sun, Dr Stephen FitzGerald
Presented by Dr Hilda Maclean Dr Hilda McClean gives an overview of Chinese Australian history as it relates to those researching their family with special emphasis on Queensland related files and also those with both Chinese and Indigenous heritage.
After service in the Ever Victorious Army under Lieutenant Colonel Charles “Chinese” Gordon during the Taiping Rebellion, Kum Tiy arrived in Sydney around 1864–1865. He immediately set up the merchant business Sun Kum Tiy & Company, Sydney. In time, his…
– a discussion with Karen Schamberger Known as a poor man’s goldfield, Lambing Flat became notorious for racist violence in the 1860s. How long did the violence last and why is it remembered as the Birth of White Australia? How…
The first novel of Chinese Australia, written 1910, translated 2019 by Ely Finch and launched by Dr Shirley Fitzgerald. read more
A Presentation by Malcolm Oakes Otto Kong Sing (1871-1917) was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales on 9 March 1895. To date, no earlier person of Chinese descent has been identified as having been admitted as a solicitor…
This gem of a letter in the Tung Wah Coffin Home Archives was written and sent in 1934 by Bing Nam (aka Ping Nam), a well known Sydney Chinese merchant from Jung Seng (Zengcheng) to the Tung Wah Coffin Home…
Chinese Australian Historical Society 